Dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, Sir Philip was shown saying: “Will you go away? Which bit are you not understanding? Go away.”

That’s going to go in the f****** sea

Sir Philip Green

He then moved close to the camera. Bowden reported that the men later “calmly” shook hands.

Green has borne the brunt of the public fallout from the collapse of BHS, with caused the loss of 11,000 jobs. MPs branded him the “the unacceptable face of capitalism” in a scathing review of the high street disaster amid calls for him to lose his knighthood.

The Arcadia supremo, whose empire includes Topshop, owned BHS for 15 years before selling it to serial bankrupt Dominic Chappell for £1 in 2015.

Green has come under fire for taking more than £400m in dividends from the department store chain, leaving it with a £571m pension deficit, and for selling it to a man with no retail experience.